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Last round of public input heard on KU’s master plan ———
Planners will now refine draft for executive committee By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
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Kansas University held open forums Thursday to give the public a glimpse at the most recent blueprint for the future of its campus. Officials are making the fifth campus master plan since 1907, and the first since 1997, a document that can be updated as the university and world around it change. The current draft of the plan proposes ways for KU to expand to the western regions of its Lawrence campus, increase mobility throughout the university, better link its main and west campuses and boost research activities by grouping facilities closer together. To help with the plan, KU contracted with Norfolk, Va.-based architecture and planning firm Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company for $1.17 million, along with other consultants. The planning process began
MEMBERS OF THE ALPHA TAU OMEGA FRATERNITY and Alpha Chi Omega sorority help kick off the 2013 Kansas University Homecoming Parade Thursday through downtown Lawrence.
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Two crowds commingle in uniquely Lawrence happening By Caitlin Doornbos cvdoornbos@ljworld.com
Peppy cheerleaders, elaborate floats, eager college students and bloody zombies marched down Massachusetts Street Thursday night as the Kansas University Homecoming Parade and the seventh annual Lawrence Zombie Walk brought a unique mix of Jayhawk and Lawrence
More photos, page 6A. pride to downtown. While the KU marching band was kicking off the parade with the Jayhawk fight song at 6 p.m., more than 1,000 zombies of all ages were dancing to eeRichard Gwin/Journal-World Photo rie Halloween music in SARAH DORFLINGER AND BRAD NOTTINGHAM, of Lawrence, South Park, preparing for their own sidewalk parade dressed as a bride and Elvis Presley, were named homecoming queen and king at the annual Zombie Walk Thursday in downPlease see LAWRENCE, page 6A town Lawrence.
2-year airport sewer project almost done By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
The puzzle of the big deep hole in North Lawrence is almost solved. It has taken two years longer than expected, but city officials are a couple weeks
from completing a project to install enhanced sewer service at the Lawrence Municipal Airport, which is expected to open up possibilities for companies to locate small-scale facilities at the airport. “The sewer situation is
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Former president of South Africa and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela will receive the 2013 Dole Leadership Prize. The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics announced the award Thursday. The Dole Leadership Prize is awarded annually to an individual or group for their public service. Previous recipients include former President George H.W. Bush, former U.S. Senators Howard Baker and George McGovern and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Mandela’s greatNelson Mandela grandson Luvuyo Mandela will accept the award Oct. 27. The award comes with a $25,000 prize that will go to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which archives materials related to Mandela’s life and tries to foster dialogue on social issues. Mandela, 95, spent 12 weeks this summer in the hospital for treatment of a lung infection, caused in part by tuberculosis that had plagued him for the last several years. He currently is under intensive care at his home and still is considered in critical condition.
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